Why can't I create a keyboard shortcut?

I created an Automator Service to restart my computer in Bootcamp (since I was getting very tired of having to navigate to the Startup Disk Prefence pane every time).  What I would like to do, is make this service have a global keyboard shortcut.  However, when I try to set one in the Keyboard Shorcuts preferences (i.e. double-clicking and holding down the desired keys), my computer just beeps at me.  What am I missing?  As far as I can tell, I'm doing what it's telling me to do.
I thought maybe it was not allowing the specific shortcut I was trying - thinking maybe it was already in use.  So I tried many other key combinations - enough to come to the conclusion that this was not the issue.
Thanks for any help you can give me!

click the right hand side of the window (where other commands are shown) not the name of the command, it won't work. If you already have the shortcut assigned it'll tell you that it's a duplicate and tell you where you use the shortcut again.
Good luck!.

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